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Having a big butt doesn't mean that a person is fat, any more than having big breasts means that a person is fat. I've always heard that having the body type where fat is stored around your abdomen to be the most dangerous kind.
If you glance at those men's magazines catering toward men of color, you won't see any obese, or even fat women being celebrated in them. The women featured have trim, flat bellies, and the classic "coke-bottle" bust-waist-hip ratio that men of all cultures seem to prefer. So the author seems to be setting up a strawman argument.
Rather than being celebrated, I would argue judging by the recent flood of films released over the years, that both African-American, and mainstream culture seem to think there is very little more pathetic and funny than a fat black woman. Except perhaps a fat black women who seems to suffer from the delusion that she might have some inherant worth and attractiveness, despite her weight. That notion seems truly thigh-slappingly funny to many.
